Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1943 — Page 9
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OF THE WEEK: Eugene Collins Pul-
Gene Pulliam, at 34, 15-2 dynamic. individual with a hair
Oct, P. ampion Manuel .trigger mind. He drives himself a narrow deci hard, and expects a lot from others 0 Lopes in their with whom he works—and gets it, In too. He's a bit irascible at times, ay Sou bts last and on occasions gets good and knockout mad. When he does, it's no secret. Tope - to - rope Tall and erect, he’s about 6 : feet 1, weighs probably 185. Inity challenger, stead of walking, he always strides. canvas to his Mr. Pulliam He has direct, penetrating blue d of the third, : , eyes, wears shellrim glasses. His ut in the fourth brown hair is clipped close—GI fashion. He keeps 7 heap two min- ‘it short because there are so many cowlicks in it. 3s later He's secretly as pleased as Punch when people ¢ of the ¢ “mistake Him and his son (Lt. Eugene S-Pulliam, U. 8.
navy) for brothers. It happens quite often.
Hide Your Gum, Girls
HIS PET PEEVE is gum chewing. He praclically has a phobia against it. The girls in his office are very careful never to let him catch them chewing. He likes good food, especially thick steaks. And he's crazy about his mother-in-law’s jelly—manages to polish off about a whole glass of it a day. = Fond of silk pajamas, he's. fo
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the fit of his shirts, has them custom made. He alrdinals and Luke ways looks fresh, no matter how long and hard he’s in on "His favorite hobbies fishing and golf. H ; Avo! are golf. e ie with _ golfs in the early 80's. He especially enjoys fishing ave ~ for muskies, but likes bass, too. “When he’s getting I respectively. " ready to go to the lakes, he gets out his fishing hat— league, Dick a disreputable looking affair—and wears it while packs it and Ralph - ing, to get in the mood. enor with 316 lll Wears Out the Phon wears re man in the Na- HIS GREATEST pride is that for a couple of ia years he was a police reporter on the Kansas City ‘Tigers kept : wee ll Washi mou] VV ashington v York Yankees gi E ng Jed ’ to Jos WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Neither our own govern American. Cin« ment nor our allies can afford to ignore some matters ras tops in the raised by several of our senators who have just returned from a tour of the war theaters. rue pitcher was When one of them as strongly supporting the ye Cards with s administration as Senator Mead of New York or gave him 8 : ay Senator Russell of Georgia voices ruett Sewell of concern, it is a warning not to 31-9, Spurgeon be ignored. These senators are the Yanks still more critical in private than they h a 20-4 record. are public because they do not wish to help those who would . Siviae she sles mY That ‘is the more reason of what these senators say, for instance, about the desirabili
Van believe that an undue burden is handed - hemisphere oil supplies which are bbing yesterday of the allied war consumption. ns' cross-coune Persian gulf refineries could be South sider’s cent, Senator Mead says. ined ; and most easily defended. But the Mediterled Critchfield, open now and it is 2000 miles from Sues Paul Stoyono- Gibraltar instead of 10,000 miles as it has been dt and The senators do not believe our fanual, are readjusted to the changing war gland, E inquired into by the Truman comon and Gens tour. last five posie nentals. 5 } was 7:33 for
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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
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Star which he still considers the world's best newspaper. ‘Born in Grant County, Kansas, the son of a Methodist minister, he attended Baker university (Baldwin, Kas.) and then DePauw. After his stint on the K. C. Star, he became editor of the Atchison (Kas.) Champion, then of the Franklin (Ind) Star, 1915-23, and from there went to Lebanon as publisher of the Lebanon Reporter, He still operates it, alogg with the Huntington Herald-Préss, Vincennes SunCommercial, several papers in Oklahoma, and radio stations WAOV (Vincennes) and WIRE. For more than a year he has devoted the majority of his time to his war bond job. He works with thousands of volunteers over the state, and has the ability to keep their enthusiasm fired, month after month. He spends much of his time answering long distance phone calls. He has a private phone number at home, but so many people know it that it might as well be listed.
Peddled Lemonade
HE SMOKES one cigar-after another. They're & special, denicotinized brand which he buys in Chicago, gets 200 at a time. . Recently he acquired a nice country home, on Kessler blvd, and along with it a water spaniel puppy which he has named Duke and which he is teaching
to retrieve, He enjoys detective stories, prides himself on his ability to solve them, attributes his skill to his experience as a police reporter—on the Kansas City
.. He's particular about Star He Wiakes 5 good toustmaster-and-dqves-to- play...
host so well that for three years he threw dinners in the Claypool, on behalf of WIRE, for 500 leading citizens.
He tells a story well. ¥He gets a kick out of recalling his boyhood days- Being the son of a Kansas minister (his father is now retired) he. felt it necessary to add to the family finances, he says, so he used to go down to the Santa Fe station, climb on the
“Fresh lemonade, made in the shade, apd stirred with a spade by an old maid.”
By Raymond Clapper
The senators are most concerned, however, about alr rights and the lack of any agreements that would give American aviation use of the many bases and airfields that we have built around the world. The senators heard a good deal about British. empire plans for extending spheres of interest through They heard much talk about Britain desir-
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By PAUL GHALI
Con ne Chickeo Dally Nowa, Toe. Switzerland,
politans. The people also were told to remain quiet if they wanted to avoid the complete destruction of the town—a proceding already well on the way,
Similar in Rome In Rome the situation is reported
longer dare to leave their barracks after dark. These disorders, too, are put down to “Communist elements.” Swiss papers remark: “The number of Communist elements in Italy has increased surprisingly since the 8.8. (elite guard) is protecting the country.” All reports received here describe the Romans as outraged by Nazi treachery. When an agreement was signed between the Germans’ southern .Itallan commander, Field Marshal Albert von Kesselring, and the military governor of Rome, Gen. Calvi di . Bergolo, the Germans promised that they would occupy only a few points in the Eternal city. The following day 8.8. troops established themselves in all ministries and at all strategical points in the city.
= = Mabilization Falls - In reply to indignant protests by the Italian authorities, Kesselring slyly answered that 8.8, troops were independent of the wehrmacht and therefore did not come under his con Meanwhile, Nazi efforts to call up all Italian officers and men of alr, sea and land forces, as well as the Fascist mobilization of all Italians born between” 1910 and 1925, for labor service, are meeting with littlé success.
STEW DONNELLY IS FINED $10
‘Stewart C. Donnelly, international confidence man whose operations once reached Paris, France, and other European capitals, was convicted in criminal court yesterday of resisting an Indianapolis The conviction affirmed a judgment in municipal court recently when he was fined $10 and costs on the resisting charge, Judge W. D, Bain, of criminal court, also affirmed the $10 fine. Donnelly, who considers Indianapolis his home town, denied that he resisted when Patrolman Louis
COMMERCE BUREAU
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U, P.)—
With Foggia in allied hands,
slovakia and Poland are well within bomber range. American and British fighter planes can effectively cover ground operations and achieve air superiority in the central Italy and Jugoslav coastal area as attacks progress. Map spots potential targets,
WANT BUTTER? USE MARGARINE
Just as Nutritious, Experts Says, but They Admit Taste Is Different.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2—~The expected “increases “in butter's ration value, due Oct. 3 unless office of price administration officials decide otherwise before that date, need not cause alarm on the nutrition angle, if margarine is obtainable. Aside from the flavor it gives to
other foods, the chief value of butter is In its fat and vitamin A
rine supplies the same amount of fat, : : The fat in butter comes from cow's milk: “The fat in margarine comes from vegetable olls. Corn oll, cottonseed oll and soybean oll are the ones chiefly used today, replacing the animal fats and coconut olls of margarines of a generation ago. The margarine fat supplies the same amount of energy and apparently is as easily digested as the butterfat.
Contain Vitamin ‘A’ Almost all brands of margarine now on the market: are enriched
been declared “nutritionally equal to butter” by the New York Academy of Medicine, which recently issued a statement urging that its consumption be encouraged. other medical, health and nutrition authorities
agree. . Latest research on the question of nutritional differences between mar-
By Science Service LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2. —Auxiliary power plants have been put on several types of warplanes during the last year, and their post-war use will be expanded to provide safer
flying, Blake Reynolds of the Law-
rance Engineering and Research Corp. reported to the meeting here of the Society ol Automotive Englneers, } “Off the basis of its present performance and uses,” he stated, “and in view of the trends currently being established, it is safe to predict that the auxiliary power plant will be standard equipment on many large and small planes, operating either in combination with main-engine generators or as a sole source of electric
If the generators driven by the main engines were completely re-. placed by the auxiliary type, a great maze of pipes and wires could: be removed from the rear of the engines which now “hampers maintenance and - impairs reliability,” it was pointed out, This would also permit the use of lighter generators as a result of removing them from the severe vibration encountered at the rear of the main engines. *
Auxiliary Power Plants Make Plane Travel Safer
Use of auxiliary power plants was first proposed only about nine years ago, and have since been known as “putt putts” because of the sound make by the engine exhaust on the first model, The first installation was made on the navy's PBY flying boat which fserved. To. demonstrate the re lability and flexibility of this source of power.” The army is now ine stalling the units in big “bombers, marking a new trend. Development has been largely in the navy where sea-going planes have more need for auxiliary power than the army because of the greater importance of radio and because ground power is not usually available before take | I —
handful of planes which could boast auxiliary power,” Mr. Reynolds said, “There are now several others which
usage of auxiliary power. Long a re ent’ y power plants, the navy is “den ting its confidence in’ their reliability, as it did some four years ago by installing two units as the sole source of elec trie. power in the flying boats.”
HER. VICTORY GARDEN AMAZES NEIGHBORS
The peak of the season has just
{arrived for two Indianapolis victory
gardeners: In her backyard garden, Mrs. Charles Moore, 5267 E. 10th st., has eight caulifiower plants producing full-sized caulifiowers, much to the astonishment of her neighbors who claim Indiana climate does not encourage caulifiower-growing. Besides that, in her first garden, she has raised 1% and 2-pound tomatoes and nine rows of beans which produced enough to can 72 quarts. J. L. Schafer, 1815 Union st., has a champion tomato stalk which, clinging to the side of his house, has reached a height of 10 feet and one inch. Tomato plants are his hobby, and his six plants have produced between 40 and 50 tomatoes this season,
OPA TO OPEN BIDS FOR MAKING TOKENS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U.P). — The office of price administration announced yesterday that bids for manufacture of 500,000,000 red ra-
the blue tokens by Jan. 1, and of
tthe red tokens by Feb. 15 when cch- w
sumers presumably will start using the new food rationing currency.
14,000,000 MORE JoBs A 14,000,000 unit increase in emt. both
NM Arrest Soldier, : * / V Girl for Forgery NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (U, P) ~~ T. Bgt. Douglas ©. Quitt, who . police said, has been absent with out leave for at least four months from Camp Livingston, La, and Ellen L. James, 21, of Baltimore, were arrested today on charges of passing bad checks to the amount
of $2000 in New York and Baltimore. ; Detectives of the forgery squad said the girl had passed $1200 worth of bad checks here and ‘$800 worth in Baltimore.
ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF COAL PLEDGED HERE
Indianapolis today was promised ample coal and relatively prompt delivery service during the next six weeks following a conference of an Indianapolis Coal Dealers’ association committee with Wayne P. Ellis, Cincinnati, representing the eighth
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By DAVID M. NICHOL 4 ot ne Chicas Daly Nowa There MOSCOW, Oct. 3.~The extreme difficulties of the Finnish people as another war winter approaches are = recelving Increasing wttention in the Soviet press. y 3 Thus, the Communist party organ Pravda published a lengthy analysis largely based on quotations from Finnish and Bwedish newspapers declaring that 60 per cent of Fine land's male population now is dis rectly engaged in the war, that losses from starvation and disease are high and that the average Finn now res ceives only 200 grams of bread dally = and four ounces of fat weekly. 3 The principal Finnish industries are operating at only 35 or 40 per cent of capacity, says Pravda, while Finland's financial position has des teriorated to a point where its debt now is 10 times greater than before
Money Is Inflated
. The circulation of paper money is up more than seven times, and the government has been forced to re sort to such measures as calling for payment of taxes several years in Fadvanee oma: mn Wr
Almost the only féature which is not attaining prominence is the war itself, The Karelian front ape pears singularly inactive. There is no single mention of offensive or defensive action there during the entire month of Septeme ber. The last occurrence was the Soviet Information bureau report for Aug. 28 which sild that 50 enemy soldiers tried to capture a small island ‘in & lake guarded by three Russian army men. Their landing boats were sunk; 20 of the enemy were killed and the rest res = treated, the account says: i
Government Criticized °
The emphasis in the Rgavda are ticle, as in previous accounts such as the recent issue of “War and the Working Class” continues to be on the duplicity of the present Finnish government which is hoping, ‘as Pravda describes it, to “get out of
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